feels less remarked on than it should be that the president is going out to a retreat in florida and doing campaign stops in kentucky days into a war he started
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feels less remarked on than it should be that the president is going out to a retreat in florida and doing campaign stops in kentucky days into a war he started
about $50 million going by
Oh.
Remember a year ago when the White House and Elon were touting the idea that DOGE was going to save so much money for the government that every American was going to get a $5,000 dividend check?
Well, government spending is higher in fiscal 2026 than at the same point in fiscal 2025:
What’s next? Persepolis? The gorgeous mosques and shrines of Isfahan?
The US bombed that school by accident, but the war is deliberate. And that's the context in which we have to judge it. We, the United States, killed those little girls, for what? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...
tariffs happening for no reason and theyre making your life worse, secret police kidnapping people for no reason and making your life worse, firing thousands of government employees for no reason and making your life worse, going to war with iran for no reason and making your life worse
Lovely.
Most likely Trump and his Administration are being blackmailed by a foreign country to cover up the Epstein Files.
www.reuters.com/world/us/for...
Massive scandal already forgotten.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Many state officials have voiced their opposition to federal immigration malfeasance, yet in the same breath, defend cooperation with ICE.
boltsmag.org/massachusett...
will the surgeons be masked?
is he going to be insisting on using leeches during surgery?
will he be using paracetamol for pain relief after or will he just do the time-honored podcastbro thing and bite down on a leather belt instead?
So many questions.
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Constellis and its predecessors provide contract security services[9] to the United States federal government. Since 2003, it has provided services to the Central Intelligence Agency.
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Constellis, formerly Blackwater, is an American private military contractor founded on December 26, 1997,[2] by former Navy SEAL officer Erik Prince.[3][4] It was renamed Xe Services in 2009, and was again renamed to Academi in 2011, after it was acquired by a group of private investors.[5] In 2014, Academi merged with Triple Canopy to form Constellis Holdings.[6][7][8] Constellis and its predecessors provide contract security services[9] to the United States federal government. Since 2003, it has provided services to the Central Intelligence Agency. In 2007, Blackwater received widespread notoriety for the Nisour Square massacre in Baghdad, when a group of its employees killed 17 Iraqi civilians and injured 20. Four employees were convicted in the United States and were later pardoned on December 22, 2020, by President Donald Trump.[10][11]
if you're trying to defend Platner by claiming that he didn't ACTUALLY work for Blackwater, he just worked for Constellis, which is TOTALLY DIFFERENT.....they just renamed the company after some mergers.
and Constellis is still notably evil! they're currently working with ICE!
EXCLUSIVE Trump Ordered Justice Department Reversal on Law Firm Sanctions " never signed off on that, the president told aides WILMERHALE WH The WilmerHale law firm was involved in one of the cases. ANNA MONEYMAKER/GETTY IMAGES By Josh Dawsey, C. Ryan Barber and Sadie Gurman March 11, 2026 12:40 pm EDT
"At the president's direction, the Department of Justice quickly amended this filing," said White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt. Leavitt said the president had confidence in Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who were serving the department "honorably." A Justice Department spokeswoman referred to the White House statement. Before Trump's intervention, top department officials believed they had signoff from the White House Counsel's Office and Trump's top aides to drop the case. But Trump himself hadn't been told of the decision, the people said, and has a longstanding modus operandi in legal matters: never drop a case willingly. Many other White House aides have wanted the issue to go away for months.
Per WSJ’s new reporting, it appears that DOJ, White House Counsel’s Office, and “top aides” tried to stop defense of the law firm EOs without directly telling Trump?
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
The funniest thing about the Trump admin is how all of the "eff your feelings" and "cry harder lib" alpha males turn out to be the whiniest saddest snowflakes, unable to handle a negative picture and walking about in ill-fitting shoes to not upset Trump.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
"When asked follow-up questions, Cornyn put his hand in front of NBC News' camera and said, 'Go away.'"
BREAKING NYT:
An ongoing military investigation has determined that the United States is responsible for a deadly Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian elementary school, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the preliminary findings. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...
when you're preparing for the economy to just get better and better
You have to make sacrifices for the very clear and articulated objectives of our War in Iran that is also not a war that we’ve also already won
Scoop: The Pentagon barred press photographers from briefings on the ongoing U.S.-Israeli military conflict with Iran after they published photos of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that his staff deemed "unflattering."
I think Trump knows exactly what he's doing with the shoes, it's another humiliation thing.
If it wasn't, they'd just rebuy the exact same Florsheim shoe in the right size and wear that. But they know he'd notice those aren't the clown shoes he gave them, so they can't do it.
The shoes are how everyone knows the pecking order. For every time someone displeases him their shoe size goes up one
I’m betting there was a plan, but they likely fired all the people that knew it, hollowed out the departments that have knowledge of the region, and their computer systems were probably wrecked by DOGE so
The idea that America isn’t for everyone who wants to be an American is something that makes my blood boil. Posting a photo of yourself as a Congressman smiling next to these words is wicked. It’s antithetical to the concept of America.
Attorney General Pam Bondi has quietly relocated to one of several military bases in the Washington area where other Trump administration officials also live, after facing threats from drug cartels and critics of her actions in handling the Jeffrey Epstein case, according to people familiar with the situation. Ms. Bondi moved from an apartment in the city within the past month in response to an array of threats flagged to her staff by federal law enforcement, these people said, including an uptick in criticism of Ms. Bondi, and threats relayed by investigators. One catalyst was an increase in threats following the capture and prosecution of President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela in January, according to a senior official with direct knowledge of the situation who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss security matters.
So Bondi moved into military housing like everyone else. NYT says ONE reason is bc she's in charge of prosecuting VZ's president (weird. Merrick Garland didn't have to hide during JOH prosecution).
Wanna bet that a more pressing one is her shenanigans re Epstein?
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...
Reporting like this--establishing a direct casual line between managerial decisions and avoidable catastrophes--is so essential to tracking the concrete costs of this administration's assault on government capacity. Thanks to @propublica.org for this work.
Without this Education Department oversight, borrowers could "be placed in the wrong loan repayment status, billed for incorrect amounts" and more, the U.S. Government Accountability Office says. n.pr/4cATsE1
JUST IN: Democrats flip a seat in the New Hampshire state House.
Dem Bobbi Boudman has won today’s special election, NHJournal reports.
(Boudman was the Dem nominee in 2024 & lost by 14%; Trump won here by 9%.)
This is Dems’ third legislative flip so far this year, after Texas and Arkansas.
Devastating reporting. Like RFK Jr., Kristi Noem, and Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth is reshaping his department to indiscriminately kill tons and tons of children.
A major throughline of the Trump administration.